“What does the new Bush team remind you of?- Funny you should ask. To me, the closest historical parallel would be the Soviet politburo under Brezhnev, where loyalty to the faultless was placed above competence and ideological fealty to a discredited belief system held trump over reality… How long can we expect this Soviet style regime to continue to stumble onward, normative failure after normative failure?- I have no idea.- The Brezhnevites eventually gave way to Gorby, but it took the humiliation of Afghanistan to drive the point home.” – Eric Alterman, equating a duly elected president with a Communist dictator.
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